Barke

/[ˈbaʁkə]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#86,235

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Barke is aGermannoun. It means: mastloses kleines Boot Pronounced [ˈbaʁkə].

Key facts for Barke
PropertyValue
HeadwordBarke
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈbaʁkə]
Letters5
Frequency rank#86,235
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Barke in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Barke is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbaʁkə]. Corpus data places it at rank #86,235 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "mastloses kleines Boot".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Barke in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Barke, spelled B-A-R-K-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    mastloses kleines Boot

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #86,235 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Barke"?
"Barke" is spelled B-A-R-K-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈbaʁkə].
What does "Barke" mean?
As a noun, "Barke" means: mastloses kleines Boot
How do you pronounce "Barke"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Barke" is [ˈbaʁkə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Barke" come from?
"Barke" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.